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12.3.2.3.2 Healthcare
Imagine a personal profile that can be accumulated about an individual, based
on a complete medical history and coupled with personal habits, medications,
exercise, and the like. A personal profile can be mapped to different parts
of the body; such a profile can provide an integrated report showing areas
where a person is vulnerable, and a plan can be created with the health of the
whole person in mind. Self-organizing maps can be created that visually show
the person’s areas of greatest vulnerability (see Figure 12.14).
12.4 Summary
The world of data and associated metadata is divided into two major types
of technology: ...